encoding speeds

[realtrain]

Help! what am I doing wrong? It is taking me the length of a movie ie. 2Hrs 30 mins to encode using dvdshrink and then taking at least over an hour to burn. I am running winXp with an athlon 1100 processor , Pioneer 107 dvdrom , Plextor708a dvd burner with easy cd/dvd creator6 burning the image. the final product is obviously good quality copy. also I have no other tasks/programmes running in the background

[fritzi93]

Check this: Right click My Computer> Properties> Hardware> Device Manager. Expand IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers. Right click Secondary IDE Channel>Properties>Advanced. (Assuming your writer is on this channel). What do you see under transfer mode? Should be DMA, not PIO. If you're in PIO mode, enable DMA and reboot. Check it again, if it didn't stick, you'll have to uninstall the channel and reboot again. Windows should autodetect and reinstall in DMA mode.

That's perhaps the most likely cause of your problem. Good luck.

[jarvis1781]

Help! what am I doing wrong? It is taking me the length of a movie ie. 2Hrs 30 mins to encode using dvdshrink and then taking at least over an hour to burn. I am running winXp with an athlon 1100 processor , Pioneer 107 dvdrom , Plextor708a dvd burner with easy cd/dvd creator6 burning the image. the final product is obviously good quality copy. also I have no other tasks/programmes running in the background

Your CPU is a little old but I can't see it taking that long to transcode even on your setup.

[realtrain]

have done what I was instructed to do - still no improvement! HELP !

[jeremyp969]

That's not unheard of to take that long to encode the movie. How much are you compressing? Are you doing deep analysis?

I have an Athlon 900, and when compressing to like 95% with deep analysis it can take an hour and a half to 2 hours.

As far as it taking an hour to rip that's not right. Are you getting buffer underruns? What speed are you burning at? Might want to try defragging your HD.